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or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

To drink excessively. See Booze.

Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.

of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

Splendor; brightness. [Poetic] Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. Milton.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

duced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak.

That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

g, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. Thomson.

A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine. -- Co*ca"in*ist, n.